Petersburg, Memoirs of an Old-Timer

"Not one of these days Petersburg - barren, lifeless and "Obroshenny" - but also the vast and densely populated, luxuriously obstroenny city full of shopping and traffic, as it was before the ill-fated war until 1915, differs in many ways from Petersburg from the beginning of the fifties to the early sixties, not only in their appearance views, customs and living conditions, and even the name. The historical name associated with its founder and borrowed from Holland, reminiscent of the "eternal worker on the throne", is replaced under the influence of a patriotic caprice, nothing telling name of Petrograd, in common with Yelizavetgrad, Pavlograd and similar. Old Town St. Peter's sometimes occurs in old-timer in his memory the same as the original, and I want, "the rosary of memories", go over it with the visitor and to introduce him to those who had left the area permanently in the past, memories'